deforestationrate was 1.95 percent. In 1990, after seven out of the past eight years under IMF programs, Ghana's deforestationrate was 4.10 percent of GDP. (See Figure ... Figure 1: Rate of deforestation in Ghana (1970-1990) Deforesation (% of GDP) Year ... 1981- 1982, 1986) the average deforestationrate was 0.46 percent of GDP

Table K: Rate of forest deforestation and Percentage of Forest Land in Ghana (1990 -2007) Forest Cover Rate of (% of land area) Deforestation Forest Cover Rate of (% of land area) Deforestation Year Year Source: FAO of UN’s Global Forest Resources ...ghana

Organisation (FAO), the rate of deforestation in Ghana is 3% per year. In 2000, the annual ... Should the Ghana Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS) targets to usher the country ... ’s dwindling forest under undue stress which could culminate into serious deforestation

deforestationrates, population density and the calculated efficiency of slowing down ... of Angola will be used as an example for each scenario. The 1990-2000 deforestationrate ... to 124, 000 ha yr-1. The deforestationrate reduction target for this country is set